Botswana deports Good
ߣߣÊÓƵn political scientist Kenneth Good was thrown out of Botswana hours after losing his legal battle against deportation for criticising the Government of President Fergus Mogae. Mr Mogae...
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Student union plea silenced
The student union at London Metropolitan University has become embroiled in the row between lecturers and managers. Last month, members of lecturers' union Natfhe staged a five-day strike over the...
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Trump wisdom on offer at $300
There isn't much New York real-estate magnate Donald Trump doesn't know about business - and now he wants to share his knowledge through a virtual university. His latest venture is named, of course,...
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Trade in fake papers soars
Students from China and other Asian countries are using fake English-language certificates to try to enrol in overseas universities. Forged English competency certificates have allegedly been issued...
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Sweden faces surge in bogus degrees
Bogus certificates and study credits purchased over the web are being used to secure jobs and university places in Sweden. The number of university job applicants caught trying to pass off fake...
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Turkey meeting on Armenian deaths shelved after ministerial pressure
An international conference on allegations of genocide against Armenians has been postponed indefinitely after the Turkish Government put pressure on the three universities that organised it. The...
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Academics see Moroccan state retreating from Islamic push in higher education
Academics in Morocco detect a softening in the state's approach to Islam's dominance in higher education two years after the Casablanca suicide bombs, which were blamed on Islamic militants. Elmahdi...
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Slovak MPs kill fees Bill
Plans to introduce student tuition fees in Slovakia have been defeated after key members of the coalition Government crossed the chamber during a parliamentary vote in Bratislava. Twelve members of...
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Strippers-for-votes probe rocks rector
The new rector of Mexico's Autonomous University of Sinaloa faces a Ministry of Education inquiry after a colleague accused him of courting student voters by paying for strippers and prostitutes....
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Spain honours Franco victims
A new project will record what happened to academics who lost their jobs as a result of Franco's purges of Spain's universities after the Spanish Civil War and will honour their memory. By 1945, a...
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A little fine-tuning will put food on all our tables
Organic farming won't feed the world, and its environmental benefits are overrated, say Louise Fresco et al World governments have committed themselves to a double challenge. At the Earth Summit in...
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Gary Day
More students means more people with mental health problems, but can universities offer the appropriate support? It's 5.20pm on a Thursday. Only another few hours before security unlock the main...
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Still in dark over shadow
If a week is a long time in politics, as Harold Wilson said, then a month must be the political equivalent of an age. It is coming up to a month since the general election and even though he has...
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Long hot summer for rebel
But if there is a hint of tardiness in Mr Kennedy's approach to appointments, the same appears to be true of the Government when it comes to appointments to select committees. One Labour insider...
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Stamp gaffe had Tim licked
If it was "The Sun wot won it" for John Major in 1992, it was a council clerk who lost it for Tim Collins, the former Tory education spokesman, in 2005. Mr Collins lost his seat in Westmorland and...